1721: The Third Siege of New Antioch is lifted by the combined forces of Sultan Ibrahim, reinforced by
a contingent of Tughlaq warriors from the East and a relief fleet of the Papal States from the West.
Sources: the rulebook
Context:
Ephrael stern
She is a sister of battle, and has psychic powers, she is quite powerful.
When she went to the Pariah Nexus, an area of the galaxy where there is almost 0 connection to the warp due to Necron technology, she was afraid, because, in Stern's own words, "I am not afraid of the millions and millions of screams I hear, screams that crash against my soul and my mind, I am afraid of silence, of not being able to hear the screams, a silence, a void, I am not afraid of screams, I am afraid when I do not hear them."
Basically, when she is fighting on a necron world inside the pariah nexus, long story short, she manages to use her powers, and with the help of her eldar ally, they manage to defeat the necron Phaeron of that world, then the soldiers who were fighrinf with her manage to defeat the rest of the necrons in that world, i'm sure you're wondering how? how the fuck is it possible for her to use space magic hacks in the only place in the galaxy where it should be impossible to use space magic hacks? The short answer: faith
Apparently, Stern's faith, such a powerful faith, such a great faith was enough for her to be able to use her powers, her faith in the emperor, her faith in his vision, her faith that she would defeat his enemies, literally the necron she was fighting was like "what the fuck, you shouldn't be able to do that", In the words of the text itself, "he could not understand that this was holy faith, not warp-related magic. That is why this miracle could take place”
Illuminator Zseras himself, the Necron who was one of the Necrontyr who created the machines for the biotransfers that transformed the Necrontyr into the Necrons, one of the most intelligent beings in the galaxy, who has studied for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years, who has experimented with countless races, does not know how it is possible that Stern can use her powers inside the Pariah Nexus.
So yeah, how does this work? May the emperor know
Sources: Psychic Awakening - Pariah
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Context: in the year of the broken trinity, a massive heretical assault attacks new antioch
As the colossal armored column of Heretics was approaching New Antioch it seemed like nothing could stopit. The Duke of New Antioch planned for one last stand and sent out a call for warriors from all over the Levant. He promised that everyone who fought in this final battle would have all their sins forgiven and be blessed into heaven on their death. A numberless host of Pilgrims were amassed, all carrying the Great Banner of New Antioch and chanting the Duke's name as they marched towards the foe.
Unfortunately this great host had no chance against the armored legions of Sacrilege-Class Tanks and Dread Artillery, they weren't meant to. These Pilgrims who had come to die in the Name of New Antioch and the Lord were not valiant heroes who would stop the Heretic Legions, they were bait. Meant to hold the armored column in place while the Duke enacted his true plan.
The Duke had combat engineers and sappers placed upon the Patricius Dam holding back the Great Lake of New Antioch. The mighty structure collapsed under the thunder of satchel charges and great deluge of water rampaged towards battlefield.
Pilgrim and Heretic alike were drowned beneath millions of gallons of water or pulled under the sucking nightmare of mud the plains had become. Tanks became trapped in the mire unable to free themselves from the chaos. The skys darkened with Faithful aircraft and a great hail of bombs fell from the heavens, annihilating any who managed to survive the flood.
Sources: steel necropolis lore drop
I didnt do this, sources:
While the Supreme Pontiff retains the spiritual leadership of Western and Central Europa, the Church war effort is delegated to twelve dedicated War Cardinals, each responsible for an important area of the Faithful dominions. War Cardinal Domenico Alidosi of the Papal States is a vigorous, charismatic and aggressive frontline commander.
The War Cardinal is responsible for the defence of the Papal States against the encroaching threat of the Heretic mainland invasion force that has reached the Italian peninsula. Here the Faithful struggle to contain the artificial monstrosities of the legions of Eligos, As the automaton soldiers and war machines need little to no supplies, they present an extremely difficult enemy to dislodge from the areas they have taken. He dreams of retaking Venice, the ancestral home of his family, but with the vast effort required in maintaining New Antioch he has found it difficult to muster enough forces for a campaign against Great Duke Eligos and his mechanical horrors.
Sources: war cardinal lore drop
Granted, maybe it gets help from the sultanate or other powers with access to the black sea, but still
The Free State of Prussia is replete with noble bloodlines, with many able to trace their roots all the way back to the Teutonic Order founded in the wake of the First Heresy. The Von Goltz family is one such lineage and its scion, Frau Frederica, was not content to simply rest on the laurels of history; she longed to elevate her family’s legacy and earn a coveted place in the ranks of the Stosstruppen. For the longest time, women had traditionally been, if not forbidden, at least discouraged, from seeking such positions, but Frederica immediately set out to challenge this. She worked tirelessly to hone her warfighting skills, learning to shoot, brawl, and duel with a variety of swords. The most grizzled of veterans and skilled blademasters tutored her day and night for many years until she took to the field as a yeoman in the ranks of the 6th Gardekorps.
A decade of war saw her earn a plentiful array of scars as well as a rapid rise through the ranks and the devotion of her fellow soldiers. In battle, she was always to be found wherever the fighting was bloodiest, **rising to become Hauptmann after picking up the the Tank-Splitter Sword of her slain commander and disemboweling the arrogant Hell-duelist who had beheaded him. This feat of valour alone would have earned her elevation to high command, but Frau Hauptmann Frederica Von Goltz had no desire to leave the battlefield for grand castles far behind the front lines.** At battle’s eve, Frederica prays to her patron saints and dons handcrafted armour before polishing the orichalcum-alloy blade of her sword, ready to cut down anyone or anything that stands before her.
Sources: Hauptmann Frederica von Goltz lore drop
Context:
In the battle of Bir al-Abed, the Mamluks stopped the Heretic forces at the edge of Sinai, preventing the entry of Shaitan’s forces into Egypt proper. Hope elated the populace, who saw the victory as a sign that the Ever-Providing One had decreed that the Mamluk sultanate would be just as safe as the Iron Wall for Those Who Believe. In the following years, Cairo’s Dar al-’Ilm, the famous rival to Baghdad’s own fabled House of Wisdom, developed the first of the legendary automaton horses, which combined metals from the Iron Wall and orichalcum alloys bought from the Franks at great expense.
Eventually the Heretic lords turned their gaze elsewhere and went on to conquer lands in eastern Asia beyond the Iron Wall, and the Mamluks were given a respite to reorganise the realm and marshal its defences. The relationship between Cairo and New Damascus remained cordial yet cool, and as the Sultan of the Iron Wall never claimed the title of Caliph, the Mamluks maintained a policy of ambiguous sovereignty, never recognising the suzerainty of the Iron Sultanate.
Along with foreign trade, the power and influence of the merchant princes in the mamluk sultanate also grew, and many of the people of the Sultanate fell into deep debt, forced into uneven contracts often signed away from the prying eyes of the gadi. Eventually the merchant alliances grew a power base of their own within the Mamluk realm. A strangling web of debt and poverty ensnared many, with desperate men and women signing contracts that they did not understand or could even read. Occupied with military matters and reliant on the funds and supplies provided by trade and the merchants, the Mamluks did not uncover the rot within their own realm in time. And as the night fell, the merchants who chafed under the rule of the warriors found a new master: the great King of Greed.
AND EGYPT WAS DOOMED
Many within the Sultanate became desperate and sought new funds from a shadowy financial organisation known as the Ten Golden Horns, who clandestinely used the symbol of the ancient king Iskander crowned with horns as their mark. They offered large loans in exchange for future physical labour. They claimed no riba would be charged, as these loans were Qard al-Hasan according to the agents of the organisation. Since these transactions happened away from the eyes of the courts (which the Golden Horns claimed were corrupt), instead of paperwork the terms were inked into the skins of the debtors, so they would always be present in the case of any disputes. With no alternative ways to escape grinding poverty, a great many accepted this offer, despite stern warnings of ulema against modification of the body in any way, and became affluent overnight. These debtors began to flaunt their newly-gained wealth in public, acting as unwitting recruiters for the Golden Horns. Eventually their numbers became so great that the Mamluk sultan prepared to investigate the source of this newfound opulence, but just as warrants were being signed, alarms bells rang and foefires were lit at the beacons of Alexandria. In a surprise attack they had long prepared for, the armies of Jahannam fell upon Egypt.
The Mamluks rushed to defend their ports and borders, emptying their garrisons and deploying their famed automaton cavalry to stop the invasion. But as the defenders of Egypt were drawn to their borders, the final step in the conspiracy of the Ten Golden Horns was finally put into play. The lords of the Golden Horns, gathered their debtors to the great plazas and souks of Alexandria and Cairo, spreading a rumour that they were about to annul the loans due to the war.
Instead of relief from their debts, the debtors were greeted by insidious poison gas unleashed upon the gathered masses of people. As the noxious fumes spread, people fell to the ground in agony, but there was no passing on to al-Ākhirah. The debtors found themselves trapped in their convulsing bodies. The hidden clause in the contract ensured that the physical labour that they had agreed to would last for eternity.
Sources: mamluk faris lore drop
Remember guys, pyramid schemes are bad!
Basically, for x or y reason, this is how this part of the world is, this body of water connects the capsian sea with the Mediterranean, how would this affect history?
Basically, i had a dream i had a job in mcdonalds and had to make 7 billon burgers, i already had a small mountain of them in the kitchen, when suddendly, thragg came to the kitchen, told me i didnt have to do this, and i suddendly was in my living room, free
This is more or less a visual representation of the dream:
I wouldnt be surprise if a good chunk of the budget of england is just to feed brittania fuel
(I included the golden khanate since they seem to be roughly in the south of russia, the areas with the most oil west of the urals)
Granted, the deathwatch already has experience killing entire xeno races just because they are xenos, hell they destroyed a race that offered humanity anti chaos weapons, but still it wouldnt be so easy as to just go exterminatus
Context: those who decide to kill themselves by drowning become Drowned Choristers
As the sea fills their bodies, the echo of want in their stomachs is obscured by a new sound, a call so loud that the faultiness of their soul is dwarfed by its harrowing cacophony. This is no trick of the dying mind, but the Song of Leviathan
Dubbed “Drowned Choristers”, they sway eerily atop the earth as if caught in ghostly currents, held down only by the weights and chains they used to take their own lives. Their song, though but a fraction of the unholy horror which “saved” them, creeps over the trenches like a thick fog, driving those Faithful that hear it into the ravenous, maddening maw of comparison
To their dismay, in recent years the war-scholars of the Faithful have noticed an increase in reports of those who have survived near-death experiences by drowning becoming obsessed with a terrifying and beautiful song. Despite clerical and military intervention, many are driven to madness and eventual suicide as they attempt to feel its revelatory immensity once more. These reports coincide with a rapid generation of new Drowned Choristers leading Heretic Naval Raiding Parties across the area of the Levant known as the Carcass Front.
Sources: Drowned Choristers lore drop
In present day, the Heretic submarine fleet harries the shores of the Kingdom of alba constantly, carrying off their young in chains to be sacrificed in the dark altars
Sources: trench crusade warband